Bio:
- Name: Sindel
- Age: Over 10,000
- Weight: 128 lbs.
- Height: 5’9
- Gender: Female
- Resides: Netherrealm
- Race: Revenant
- Eye Color: Orange
- Status: Revenant Servant
- Alignment: Unwillingly Evil
Despite her menacing appearance, Sindel is kind and benevolent in nature. She rules the realm of Edenia alongside her daughter, Princess Kitana. Sindel’s power appears to be of an inner, ethereal nature in more than one way. She is a distinctly older and more mature character, with flowing grey hair and a regal attitude befitting of her role as Queen of Edenia. She has a natural affinity with aerial magic, as evidenced by her ability to levitate and manipulate sonic waves.
Storyline
Sindel’s storyline begins tragically 10,000 years ago, when her kingdom was invaded by Shao Kahn. The Queen was forced to watch as her husband King Jerrod was killed, her people enslaved, herself becoming Kahn’s wife through a forced wedding. To top that off, her then-infant Kitana adopted by Kahn as his daughter shortly thereafter. This proved too much for her as a mother, wife, and queen, and soon after the invasion, she committed suicide. Sindel saw it as the only way to escape what she believed was eternal subservience to her new husband. Kahn wouldn’t let his new Queen go so easily and held her soul in Outworld by an unknown means, stopping her transition to the afterlife.
Mortal Kombat 3
The former queen of Edenia’s suicide would not be the end of her. Gaining aid from the wicked Elder God Shinnok, Shao Kahn would conspire to bring his beloved back to life, but not in Outworld. Instead, her resurrection would take place on Earth. This would allow Shao Kahn to step through the borders separating the realms and claim her for himself, thus forcing a merger between Earth and Outworld. She would also be revived in a brainwashed state, with no knowledge of her past and having complete loyalty to her “husband” Kahn. After the sorcerer Shang Tsung failed to secure Earth via the Mortal Kombat tournament, Kahn implemented this plan, and was partially successful. Sindel was reborn just as was planned, and Kahn was able to garner a partial merger of the realms by her revival before Earth’s warriors defeated him. Kahn didn’t just lose Earth in his defeat. Kitana, realizing that her mother was alive succeeded in procuring an audience with her and convincing her of her true past, thus turning Sindel against the emperor. As Kahn’s defeat also succeeded in separating it from their home realm of Edenia, Sindel took up her rightful place on its throne. Sindel vowed not only to rebuild their home, but to also bring down Shao Kahn for his many crimes.
Mortal Kombat 4
While in the process of rebuilding their realm and civilization, Sindel and Kitana were betrayed by fellow Edenian, Tanya. The traitor sided with fallen elder god Shinnok, and aided him in the invasion of Edenia. Though Kitana got away, Sindel herself was captured and held in her own dungeon until Shinnok’s forces were defeated. Enraged at this latest invasion on her kingdom, Sindel sent Kitana to form an alliance with the Shokan armies. Her daughter would lead them into battle against a weakened Shao Kahn while she continued to help restore Edenia to its former beauty.
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Unfortunately, Sindel’s plans on restoring Edenia would once again have to wait. With the formation of the Deadly Alliance, it brought conflict between Kitana, her old friends, and her alliance. They were all slain in battle only to be later resurrected by Onaga, the Dragon King as mindless warriors under his control.
Mortal Kombat: Deception
Edenia eventually fell to Onaga and Sindel was kidnapped, locked away in one of her own palace dungeons once more. With the brainwashed Kitana serving as her guard, Sindel did not try to free herself, knowing that it would require her to harm her own daughter. With the aid of the traitor, Tanya, he would begin to scour the kingdom for the missing Kamidogu, the sources of his new and true power. Luckily, Jade managed to defeat Kitana, free Sindel, and escape with her to Outworld.
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
Sindel joined the Forces of Light for the Battle of Armageddon. She is killed by an unknown combatant who stabs her with a sword.
Mortal Kombat 9
Sindel was resurrected by Quan Chi, who was accompanied by Noob Saibot. While Sindel’s suicide provided protection for Earthrealm, her resurrection causes the protection to dissipate. In turn, Shao Kahn proceeded with his new plans. After Motaro is killed by Raiden, Shao Kahn takes the souls from Shang Tsung’s body, and grants his queen/empress the power needed to defeat her enemies.
With the new powers of Shang Tsung’s souls, Sindel leads the Lin Kuei cyborgs, along with Cyrax and Sektor, in an attack on the Earthrealm warriors. While the cyborgs are all defeated, Sindel attacks and kills almost all of the Earthrealm warriors, and fatally wounds her own daughter, Kitana. She then ignores her daughter’s pleas before draining her soul. She is then challenged by Nightwolf, with the latter emerging victorious. Yet the shaman is forced to sacrifice himself to destroy the Outworld empress. Only Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade survive, but with major injuries. When Raiden and Liu Kang return from their visit with the Elder Gods, they find a dying Kitana. Kitana eventually dies from her wounds inflicted by Sindel while talking with Kang.
In an attempt at stopping Shao Kahn, Raiden goes to the Netherrealm to plead for Quan Chi’s assistance. The necromancer states that he already has all of the souls from the recent battles, which includes Sindel’s soul.
Mortal Kombat X
As a corrupted revenant, Sindel participated in Shinnok’s invasion of Earthrealm, and was one of the key figures in the assault on Raiden’s Sky Temple. Just outside the Jinsei Chamber, Sindel attempted to kill Fujin with her Migraine fatality, only to be intercepted and defeated by Raiden.
25 years later, she does battle with the former revenant Jax in the Netherrealm, where she is defeated. Any chance Raiden has at restoring Sindel and the other revenant heroes to an uncorrupted form is lost when Quan Chi is killed by Scorpion.
After Shinnok begins corrupting the Jinsei, Sindel confronts Cassie Cage. Cassie asks whether she feels guilt for killing her own daughter Kitana, and Sindel replies that they have been reunited in death as a real family. She offers to give an undead Cassie a proper upbringing as well, but is refused and defeated.
When Cassie goes to confront Shinnok, Sindel helps the other revenants battle Cassie’s allies. After Shinnok is defeated, she and her cohorts make haste and disappear back to the Netherrealm. She likely continues to serve Kitana and Liu Kang, the new rulers of the Netherrealm.
Powers and abilities
Being an Edenian, Sindel possesses an array of mystical abilities. One of her trademark abilities is her ultrasonic, super-loud screaming. The strength and its properties seem to differ on the focus. This ranges from sonic blasts to a fierce sound wave that can outright blast an opponent’s skin clean off. She can tone this down to a degree to paralyze the unwary. Another of her mystical powers is her prehensile hair which can be used as both a throw and a finisher, where it would grow to extremely long lengths and be able to wrap itself around the opponent. Another of Sindel’s distinguishing characteristics is her ability to levitate. Apart from serving as her win pose, she can use this to evade enemy attacks and deal damage simultaneously.